No. Authority is necessary to have stable control. Laws are a tool to define the rules the people must follow.
stable control is not necessary for a good, functioning society that best serves its inhabitants in the short and long term. it is, however, necessary for easy subjugation, authoritarianism, and, inevitably, fascism. there also don’t need to be any rules that people must follow, just agreed upon principles to use to resolve conflict.
But everyone can’t agree on the same principles, that’s one reason why there’s conflict in the first place. Just take “Murder is bad”, for example. That obviously counts for humans but what about animals? Vegeterians/Vegans have a different opinion on that than people who eat meat, so who is going to decide who’s right?
I’m not as well read on the topic but I would say that any society of humans working together would require some form of resolving dispute - provided that the individuals it concerns cannot come to terms on their own.
With the freedom of pure imagination, I can see a society that lives freely where needs are met if possible by those who can and are willing to meet them. In line with utopian imagination, no one desires to exert power over others (unless in consensual and temporary scenarios) so relationships and collaboration are done with a spirit of purpose/being rather than what one will get in exchange.
Is that practical? Not at face value, because even the best intentioned people make mistakes: in the misinterpretation of what was communicated, or unintentionally overstepping what is comfortable. Both of those can be addressed through healthy and empathetic communication, which is a style accessible to all humans. So I could see a society that openly communicates on all sorts of things and clears their relationships by acknowledging when one’s self has a “pebble in my shoe” feeling of something to address.
- ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ ( @yogthos@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 years ago
Why imagine when we have real world examples what that looks like in practice.
Idk why you keep going back to this terrible example of a bunch of idiot libertarians who were already selfish to begin with. If you groupedtherights people with sustainable resources it would most definitely go diffenrely.
- ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ ( @yogthos@lemmy.ml ) 4•2 years ago
It’s a question of scale though. Sure, if you have a hand picked community of reasonable people who are all on the same page things will work fine. However, it’s really hard to get large groups of people to cooperate in ad hoc fashion.